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AvailablePhoneNumber resource

The subresources of the AvailablePhoneNumber resource lets you search for local, toll-free and mobile phone numbers that are available for you to purchase. You can search for phone numbers that match a pattern, are in a certain country, are in certain area code (NPA) or exchange (NXX) or are in a specific geography.

You cannot make requests directly to AvailablePhoneNumber instance resources. Instead, to find available numbers, make a request to one of the subresources:

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Info

Once you've found a number you'd like to purchase (also referred to as provisioning a number or buying the number), you can do so using the Incoming Phone Numbers API.

Supported Countries and Types

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You can query the AvailablePhoneNumber resource to get a list of subresources available for your account by ISO Country. For full information about our phone number support, see our Phone Number CSV(link takes you to an external page) or the FAQ(link takes you to an external page). Each instance of the resource will have the following properties.

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
country_codestring<iso-country-code>Optional
Not PII

The ISO-3166-1(link takes you to an external page) country code of the country.

countrystringOptional
Not PII

The name of the country.

uristring<uri>Optional
Not PII

The URI of the Country resource, relative to https://api.twilio.com.

betabooleanOptional
Not PII

Whether all phone numbers available in the country are new to the Twilio platform. true if they are and false if all numbers are not in the Twilio Phone Number Beta program.

subresource_urisobject<uri-map>Optional
Not PII

A list of related AvailablePhoneNumber resources identified by their URIs relative to https://api.twilio.com.

Fetch a specific country

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GET https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/AvailablePhoneNumbers/{CountryCode}.json

Path parameters

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Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescription
AccountSidSID<AC>required
Not PII

The SID of the Account requesting the available phone number Country resource.

Pattern: ^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
CountryCodestring<iso-country-code>required
Not PII

The ISO-3166-1(link takes you to an external page) country code of the country to fetch available phone number information about.

Fetch a specific countryLink to code sample: Fetch a specific country
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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install

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const twilio = require("twilio"); // Or, for ESM: import twilio from "twilio";

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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console

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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure

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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;

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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;

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const client = twilio(accountSid, authToken);

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async function fetchAvailablePhoneNumberCountry() {

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  const availablePhoneNumber = await client.availablePhoneNumbers("US").fetch();

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  console.log(availablePhoneNumber.countryCode);

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}

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fetchAvailablePhoneNumberCountry();

Output

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{

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  "beta": null,

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  "country": "United States",

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  "country_code": "US",

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  "subresource_uris": {

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    "local": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers/US/Local.json",

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    "toll_free": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers/US/TollFree.json"

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  },

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  "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers/US.json"

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}

Read a list of countries

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GET https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{AccountSid}/AvailablePhoneNumbers.json

Path parameters

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Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescription
AccountSidSID<AC>required
Not PII

The SID of the Account requesting the available phone number Country resources.

Pattern: ^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34

Query parameters

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Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescription
PageSizeintegerOptional
Not PII

How many resources to return in each list page. The default is 50, and the maximum is 1000.

Minimum: 1Maximum: 1000
PageintegerOptional
Not PII

The page index. This value is simply for client state.

Minimum: 0
PageTokenstringOptional
Not PII

The page token. This is provided by the API.

Read a list of countriesLink to code sample: Read a list of countries
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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install

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const twilio = require("twilio"); // Or, for ESM: import twilio from "twilio";

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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console

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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure

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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;

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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;

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const client = twilio(accountSid, authToken);

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async function listAvailablePhoneNumberCountry() {

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  const availablePhoneNumbers = await client.availablePhoneNumbers.list({

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    limit: 20,

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  });

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  availablePhoneNumbers.forEach((a) => console.log(a.countryCode));

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}

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listAvailablePhoneNumberCountry();

Output

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{

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  "countries": [

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    {

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      "beta": false,

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      "country": "Denmark",

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      "country_code": "DK",

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      "subresource_uris": {

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        "local": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers/DK/Local.json"

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      },

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      "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers/DK.json"

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    }

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  ],

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  "end": 1,

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  "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/AvailablePhoneNumbers.json"

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}